Addressing the United Nations on Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran delivered a particularly absurd address that presented Iran as the solution to problems that Iran itself has created.

Rouhani claimed that what Iran really wants is to “strengthen consolidation among all the nations with common interests in the Persian Gulf and the Hormuz region.” Pointing out that freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf has recently been “seriously endangered” — whose fault is that? — Rouhani decided to “invite all the countries directly affected by the developments in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the … ‘Hormuz Peace Endeavor,'” which he said is about fostering “peace, stability, progress and welfare.”